Dave Valdez, known as Uncle Dave and members of the Los Cochinos Motorcycle Club, a Hispanic biker club, pose on their motorcycles on a street in Denver, Colorado. Uncle Dave has a long, gray goatee, wears a leather vest and a head band that reads:...

Three year old Chico Stange, a member of Azteca Art Colorado, plays a carved wooden drum in Denver, Colorado. He holds two carved, wooden drum sticks. He wears a feather headdress decorated with beadwork, and a fabric loincloth and apron decorated...

Andrea Barela, NEWSED development director and event organizer for the annual Denver Cinco de Mayo celebration, poses with former Denver city councilwoman and vice chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Rosemary Rodriguez, in the...

Boyd Polhamus, rodeo announcer, poses with Luis Canela, the master of ceremonies for the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza during the 100th anniversary of the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. Boyd wears a denim shirt, jeans and a cowboy...

Young women participate in an immigration rights rally at Civic Center Park in Civic Center, Denver, Colorado. One teenage girl is wrapped in an American flag. A young woman beside her holds a sign and a Mexican flag, and wears a Mexico T-shirt. A...

Portrait of Tony Garcia, the Executive Artistic Director of El Centro Su Teatro since 1989 and a member of Su Teatro since 1972. He holds a microphone and wears a shirt with two dark, embroidered panels. He has a trimmed beard and mustache.

Roberto Torres, Jr. carries the flag in the opening event of the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza during the 100th anniversary of the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. Roberto rides a horse, wearing a traditional Mexican cowboy (charro)...

Mexican Americans, Rosemary Rodriguez, Paul Lopez and Ramona Martinez pose at an event presented by the Gay and Lesbian Fund of Colorado, Denver, Colorado. All three have served as Denver City Council Representatives for District 3. Rosemary...

View of unidentified Mexican folk dancers at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in Denver, Colorado. A woman in a blue costume decorated with purple and white frills dances with a man wearing a Mexican serape and a sombrero. The woman has ribbons and a...

Crowds attend a Cinco de Mayo celebration in Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. Musicians and spectators are in the Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors. Shows advertising banners and loudspeakers. The North Building of the Denver...

The founding members of Chicano Humanities & Arts Council (CHAC), pose in front of paintings and drawings in Denver, Colorado. The artists are identified Left to right: Jerry Jaramillo, Al Sanchez, Stevon Lucero, and Carlos Sandoval.

Paul Chavez and Dave Gallegos were Spanish speaking radio broadcast personalities on the Latin Connection on KBDO radio in Denver Colorado beginning in the late 1970s. They pose in a large space decorated with paper cutouts hung on a line from the...

Daniel and Maruca Salazar pose with their adult children, Maruca Salome Salazar and Gabriel Numa Salazar in Denver, Colorado. Maruca, Director of the Museo de las Americas, has gray hair, wears a striped handwoven dress and a reboso over her...

Pallbearers carry the flag draped coffin of Sam Sandos, to a hearse after his funeral at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colorado. The pallbearers are identified as: Andres Knight, Ken Salazar, Zee Ferrufino, Richard...

State Representative Rich Castro and United States Congresswoman Pat Schroeder pose outside the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, Colorado. Rich Castro wears a suit and tie and Congresswoman Schroeder wears a suit and an overcoat. She has...

Colorado Governor Roy talks with Tim Sandos, Denver City Councilman at a political event, probably in Denver, Colorado. Governor Romer wears a suit, tie and eyeglasses. Councilman Sandos wears a cowboy hat, a dark shirt and a bolo tie. He has a...

Sculptor Eduardo Martinez poses in his studio beside the clay model for his oversized bronze sculpture of Joe P. Martinez, the first Hispanic to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II. The sculpture was a commission for the grounds...

Sergeant William "Billy" Gallegos stands in the back of a convertible automobile in a parade in his honor in Denver, Colorado. Gallegos, in uniform, a Marine Corps Sergeant and former guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, was held hostage for...

United States Congressman Tim Wirth congratulates Denver mayoral candidate Federico Peña on at a rally on the steps of the City and County building in Denver, Colorado. Peña supporters hold signs that read: "Peña" and "Peña for Denver."

Mayoral candidate Federico Peña, wife Ellen Hart Peña, and children Nelia and baby Cristina pose in the back of a convertible probably during a campaign appearance in a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. A motorcycle policeman and a boy with a...

United States Congresswoman Pat Schroeder and State Representative and candidate for Denver Mayor, Federico Peña pose in a booth at a church fair in Denver, Colorado. Congresswoman Schroeder laughs as Representative Peña points. A man in the...

An elderly couple, Stella Cordova, founder and owner of Chubby's, a Mexican restaurant. and her husband Alex Cordova, pose in their home in Denver, Colorado. Alex has his arm around Stella, and she wears a polka dot dress and glasses.

Mexican Americans, members of the Crusade for Justice (La Crusada Para Justicia) march in protest down 15th (Fifteenth) street in Denver, Colorado. They carry a large banner written in both English and Spanish, which reads: "It Is Better to Die On...

View of a crowd at an immigration rights reform rally in Civic Center Park and on the Colorado State Capitol grounds in Denver, Colorado. Thousands of demonstrators move across Colfax Avenue towards the park and the capitol building. They carry...

An unidentified Vietnam veteran and Rear Admiral Henry F. Herrera pose at a G.I. Forum event probably in Lincoln Park, Denver, Colorado. The veteran wears a tuxedo and a beret. The Rear Admiral is in full dress uniform. Civic Center Park is in the...

George Sandoval, a pioneer in Spanish speaking radio in Denver, introduces two new appointees of Denver Mayor Federico Peña to members of the G.I.Forum in Denver, Colorado. Manuel Martinez, Manager of Safety, stands on his left, and Ari Zavaras,...

View of Hispanic politicians at the Cinco de Mayo celebration in Denver, Colorado. They are identified as (Left to right): Ramona Martinez, Denver City Councilwoman; Cecilia Garcia; Henry Cisneros, Mayor of San Antonio, Texas; Debbie Ortega, Denver...

Denver's first Hispanic American Mayor, Federico Peña stands on the steps of the City and County Building and is sworn in by Colorado Supreme Court Justice Joseph Quinn, Denver, Colorado. The mayor stands at a podium with his hand raised, Justice...

Portrait of boxer Max Maximiliano Anthony Gomez. The world featherweight champion poses with three of his title belts. He wears one around his waist and the other two are draped over his shoulders. He wears boxing trunks decorated with glitter and...

Portrait of Richard (Rich) T. Castro, civil rights activist , legislator and director of Denver's Agency for Human Rights and Community Relations, and his wife Virginia in Denver, Colorado. They were at a ceremony where he was awarded the Human...

Studio portrait of Henry Solano, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Denver, Colorado. He sits beside an American flag in a suit and tie, he has a goatee and mustache and wears a cowboy hat. He had previously served as Director of...

Mayor Henry Cisneros from San Antonio, Texas, holds up the arm of Federico Peña, candidate for mayor in Denver, Colorado. The men stand near drum sets, a crowd of Peña supporters are in the distance.

Richard Castro, civil rights leader and Colorado legislator, and Michael Simmons perform as the "Blues Brothers" at a fund raiser for Federico Peña, candidate for Mayor of Denver, at the Denver Hilton Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Both men sing in...

View of a crowd at an immigration rights reform rally in Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. They wave American flags and a sign that depicts a map of the United States and reads: "We Don't Cross the Border, It Crossed Us."

Garcia, Shannon.

[2006 March 25]

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